tinuzz

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply, I was on holiday. This is an interesting feature. Could you create a feature request issue on Github?

https://github.com/tinuzz/wp-plugin-trackserver/issues

Regards,
Martijn.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by tinuzz.

Hi,

Sorry, I don’t own an iOS device, so I don’t know if it’s different than on Android. In the Android version, it’s in the settings of the GPX-track plugin. The plugin has different profiles for diffent tracking settings, and in the profile settings, there is a section called ‘Online Tracking’.

Best regards,
Martijn.

Hi,

What exactly do you expect from OsmAnd regarding multiple users? OsmAnd can be used by multiple users with the same Trackserver installation, and Trackserver can display multiple live tracks in one map. Do you need more? OsmAnd cannot display the map with multiple users’ locations, if that’s what you mean.

OwnTracks support in Trackserver is still experimental, so I’m not sure it works for everyone, and it’s indeed not well documented. I dug up an OwnTracks configuration that used to work, maybe you can try it? Save this to a file (use .otrc for the filename extension) and import it into OwnTracks:

{
  "_type": "configuration",
  "mode": 3,
  "auth": true,
  "username": "your_username",
  "password": "your_password",
  "url": "https://your_owntracks_endpoint_url/"
}

Regarding your shortcode: use ‘user=@’ instead of ‘track=live’, and you can leave out the ‘continuous=y’, it’s only for when you have multiple tracks that are basically segments of one longer track.

The initial display coordinates are hardcoded into Trackserver, I’m sorry about that. I will make a setting for that in a future version.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Martijn.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by tinuzz.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by tinuzz.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by tinuzz.

Hi,

Sorry for the lack of replies. This feature is on the roadmap, in some shape or another. But I’m having trouble finding the time to work on Trackserver. Right now, I’m trying to get v5 ready for release, which focusses on code refactoring, with not many new features. But I’ve still got quite some work to do, and it’s going to take a while, sorry.

Regards,
Martijn.

I have a blog post about client and protocol support in Trackserver coming up, but I can’t publish it until after the next release of Trackserver, because it’s not entirely applicable to v4.3.

Martijn.

Hi,

Trackserver uses more or less known protocols to upload location data, so I don’t have any documentation for that. You should look for the protocol documentation upstream.

The easiest way to get data into Trackserver if you don’t care about tracks (only locations), would be the OsmAnd protocol, which is just HTTP GET and doesn’t even need basic auth. It doesn’t even need documentation, because you can find all the URL parameters in your Trackserver profile:

/?lat={0}&lon={1}&timestamp={2}&altitude={4}&speed={5}&bearing={6}&username=<usename>&key=<key>

If you do care about Tracks, I suggest you look into the MapMyTracks protocol, which is HTTP POST + XML based. A little more complicated, but at least it does authentication in an acceptable way.

Regarding Google Maps: I can’t help you with that. You should try and find the tile URL, but G Maps is very restricted, license wise, so it’s likely illegal to use it with Trackserver, unless you pay.

Regards,
Martijn.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by tinuzz.

You can also check your setup with, for example, cURL:

curl "https://www.mysite.com/tracker/wp-username/password/requests.z?a=upload&tn=Test&lat=58&long=5&do=2020-05-12%2012:19:18"

If all is well, the result should be:

Result:0

If not, you will see an error.

Best regards,
Martijn.